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Leners .Patent No. 75,903, and Mami 24, 186s.

IMPROVEMENT IN HINGE-POR. SIiEET-METAL BOXES.

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Be it known that I, CHARLES J. I-IA'UCK, of ZG-Stagg street,Williamsburg, in the county of Kings, and in the State of New York, haveinvented a4 new and useful Improvement in Hinges for Tobacco-Boxes,Svc.; and

I do hereby declare that lthe following isaJ full, clear, and exactdescriptionl thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing,forming part of this specification, .in which drawing'- Figure Irepresents a transverse section o` this invention.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the same as attached to a'tobacco-box.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the hinge detached, in a larger scalethan the previous igures.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates tonI hinge niade'oftwo parts, one part consistingof a simple loop made of sheet metal, and provided -with a shank, whichis passed through.' a mortise in the side of the tobacco box or otherarticle towhich the hinge is to be secured, while the otherpart of thehinge consists of a piece of wire, which is passedthrough holes in` theside of the cover of the tobacco-box or other article, andnally its endsare turned down on the inside of said cover, and fastened by solder insuch a manner that a strong, durable, and cheap hinge is obtained, ahinge which is much easier made than one with one or more sheet-metalloops in each part, and which is much more readily attached to atobaeeo`-box or other article.

A lrepresents niy hinge, whicheonsists of two parts a b, while hinges ofthe ordinary construction are com-v posed of three parts, vis, thetwo-sections of theV hinge and the connecting-wire- The piu-t a of myhinge is made of a strip of sheet metal, turned Aover so es to form aloop and a shank. This shank ismade to pass through a. slot in the sideof the body of'the bok or other article to which the hinge is to beattached, and then. secured by solder in the position shown in thedrawing. The part b of the hinge consists of a plain piece of wire,which is passed through the loop of the part a, and then its ends arebent and passed through holes in the lid 4or lcover of the tobacco-boxor other article-to which the hinge is to ,besecured; and finally, saidends are turned over on the inside, as clearly shown in fig. 2, and thenfastened with solder.

By these-,means a hinge is'obtained which is very cheap. in itsconstruction, which can be readily applied to the article on which it isAto be used, and which is veryduiable. Y

What I claim as new, and desire-to secure by Letters Patent, is-n 'Thewire, b, with its curved ends passing through holes in the riun'ofV thebox or cover, and fastened thereto by solder'l in combination withthesheet-metal loop a, having its shariks passing through the rim' of thebox or cover, and fastened thereto by solder, as shown and described'. iA

i C. J. HAUCK.

Witnesses W. I IAUFF, Gusmv BERG.

